Modern Vespa

In the meantime, I am going to check every nut & bolt, every hose clamp, the fluids, the tire air pressure,
and look in the gas tank, to verify it's got gas. Just like my Great Grandfather did... in 1908

Never owned a motorcycle have you? These things vibrate, that vibration causes things to come loose. That is why they have recommendations for going around and checking the bolts regularly.

As far as hose clamps, things happen.

Wayne B

definately more issues with these things then any jap motorcycle I ever owned

Have you ever owned a thumper before? A single cylinder 500 vibrates a lot. I use to have to tighten nuts & bolts on my old XT 500 all the time. Had a hug can of metric nuts & bolt I got when I was turning wrenches on motorcycles.

Wayne B

real close, had an SR500, no reason what so ever for coolant hoses to be 'vibrating off' also these modern big singles just don't vibrate like our old 70s thumpers did. My old man had a post war enfield single, now talk about vibration

Ownership entitles opinion; even yours.


Ciao 8)

+1

Jap-anese you mean?

Jap engines rattled apart with great regularity I'm told. When was the last one made?

http://www.500race.org/Marques/JAP.htm

heh heh! good one Jim just like I heard AJS stands for 'all junk scrap'

I'm an east coast guy, that term is also a 70s compliment

I s'pose that depends on who you talk to! I never met anyone Japanese that liked being complimented that way...

I just took this photo yesterday... 26 yrs old, no rattles, a little smoke.

sweet!